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Wildfires in Power

Power, United States, has had 11 fires with an official perimeter since 2016: 38,309 hectares burned inside the county, 10% of its area. Fire danger today: very low (FWI 2).

Only fires of 400 ha or more get an entry: smaller ones are not in the lists or the totals on this page.

Fire danger, today and the coming days

FWI computed from the Open-Meteo forecast
  1. Thu 29 Very low 13° · 57 % · 18 km/h
  2. Fri 30 Very low 15° · 47 % · 31 km/h
  3. Sat 31 Very low 12° · 73 % · 31 km/h
  4. Sun 1 Very low 9° · 84 % · 34 km/h
  5. Mon 2 Very low 9° · 67 % · 37 km/h
  6. Tue 3 Very low 12° · 55 % · 20 km/h
  7. Wed 4 Very low 12° · 55 % · 23 km/h
  8. Thu 5 Very low 11° · 65 % · 25 km/h

Canadian Fire Weather Index, the same system Copernicus uses, computed by WorldFires from the weather forecast and two months of past weather for fuel state. It is an estimate per municipality, not an official warning: warnings are issued by each country’s emergency service.

The county and its fires

Since 2016

38,309
hectares burned
10 %
of the county
11
fires
3,725
km²

How many times has Power burned?

Power has burned 11 times since 2016, in 7 years: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2021, 2025 and 2026. The most recent: Lake Channel Fire, July 2026, with 1,019 hectares inside the municipality.

  1. 1× 16
  2. 1× 17
  3. 1× 18
  4. 3× 19
  5.   20
  6. 2× 21
  7.   22
  8.   23
  9.   24
  10. 1× 25
  11. 2× 26
11
fires
7
years with fire
38,309
cumulative ha
29 Jul 2026
most recent

Fires larger than 400 hectares with a perimeter since 2016 that reached the municipality, even partly. Cumulative hectares add up every fire; the distinct area counts land that burned several times only once. Perimeters and boundaries overlaid by WorldFires.

Where it has burned most often in United States →

Fires that entered Power

  1. 1,019 ha Lake Channel Fire, July 2026 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,018 ha in total · 2 days
  2. 547 ha Michaud Creek Fire, June 2026 where it started 0.2% of the county · 589 ha in total · 1 day
  3. 1,158 ha Split Top Fire, August 2025 0.3% of the county · 2,222 ha in total · 1 day
  4. 636 ha Lusk Fire, July 2021 where it started 0.2% of the county · 644 ha in total · 1 day
  5. 1,639 ha Cold Creek Fire, June 2021 where it started 0.4% of the county · 1,637 ha in total · 1 day
  6. 3,930 ha Flat Top Fire, September 2019 where it started 1.0% of the county · 3,910 ha in total · 1 day
  7. 3,682 ha Horse Butte Fire, July 2019 where it started 1.0% of the county · 3,940 ha in total · 2 days
  8. 2,054 ha Lake Channel Fire, July 2019 0.6% of the county · 3,402 ha in total · 1 day
  9. 411 ha Rim Fire, June 2018 where it started 0.1% of the county · 410 ha in total · 2 days
  10. 22,000 ha Powerline Fire, August 2017 where it started 5.9% of the county · 21,994 ha in total · 3 days
  11. 1,233 ha Power Line Fire, August 2016 where it started 0.3% of the county · 1,231 ha in total · 2 days

Where this data comes from

Perimeters are official, from MTBS (USGS and USDA Forest Service) and NIFC, in the public domain; county boundaries come from geoBoundaries/United States Census Bureau, MAF/TIGER Database (Public Domain). The area per county is computed by WorldFires by crossing both. The forecast is from Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0).

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